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expensiveness|ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnɪs| [f. prec. + -ness.] 1. The quality of being expensive or costly, or of requiring large outlay; costliness.
1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 224 Considering the expensiveness of the place [Cambridge]. 1656Prynne Rights Eng. Freemen 21 The expensivenesse..of their Law sutes. 1705Arbuthnot Coins viii. (1727) 75 Their Highways, for their extent, solidity or expensiveness, are some of the greatest monuments of the grandeur of their Empire. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. x, That..celebrity which makes an artist great to the most ordinary people by their knowledge of his great expensiveness. 1882Seeley in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 457 The expensiveness of the wars. 2. Disposition to lavish expenditure, extravagance. Now rare.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xiv. 45 Ulrick Fugger..was disinherited of a great patrimony onely for his studiousnesse, and expensivenesse in buying costly manuscripts. 1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. iii. xi. 304 His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself. 1819L. Hunt Indicator No. 1 (1822) I. 7 An improved knowledge which does not confound good taste with expensiveness. |